"The True and Secret Part of the History is Left to Me": Colonial Oppression and Selective Historiography in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang

Kern-Stähler, Annette

doi:10.7892/boris.74314

2003

DOI: 10.7892/boris.74314

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"The True and Secret Part of the History is Left to Me": Colonial Oppression and Selective Historiography in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang

Annette Kern-Stähler¹

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The Bushranger's Voice: Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) and Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter (1879)

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2007

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There is an umbilical cord of outlaw folkloric tradition that joins Rolf Boldrewood's 1880s bushranger novel Robbery Under Arms and Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel True History of the Kelly Gang (2000). Carey has done again what Boldrewood so innovatively achieved: the invention, or reinvention, of the bushranger's voice. But the more tantalising manifestation of the common outlaw tradition, for Carey, was the real-life bushranger Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter (1879). The relationship between the Letter and Carey's novel interrupts an easy postmodern take on his work: this interruption is the subject of the essay. It teases out the paradox of the novel's being simultaneously both postmodern-quotational and, in the old-fashioned sense, an act of imaginative engagement with a significant past, a historical tale in fact.

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The Bushranger's Voice: Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) and Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter (1879)

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"The True and Secret Part of the History is Left to Me": Colonial Oppression and Selective Historiography in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang

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